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Mindset Moment: I've been thinking about cancel culture for the past few days, this especially in light of the cancellation of Dr. Suess. His work spanned decades of humanity where he spotlighted greed, prejudice and disproportionate authority. And he did this while teaching children how to read in a delightfully fun way. He combined weighty topics, humor, and education in a way that has rarely been matched. In many ways he was ahead of his time. Yet today he is judged with a different standard by Generation PT. That's "Generation Participation Trophy," which is my name for pretty much everyone under the age of 35.
I know I run the risk of being the old man with the "I had to walk five miles to school, uphill both ways, in snow, sleet, rain, or wildfire." stories. But did today's young judges of all that is morally proper ever hear the phrase "sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me?" You know what you can correctly call someone who is easily offended? Weak. Immature. Or too spoiled to know what real hardship is.
These are the same people who now want to cancel Abraham Lincoln because he didn't do enough. Rewrite history, tear down statues of imperfect people, establish new standards of wokeness, crucify anyone who doesn't conform and especially those who disagree. I want to say I've never seen anything like it, but that would not be true. I've seen and experienced something JUST like this.
I grew up in the Independent Baptist Church movement. Yes we had Jesus, but in order to hang out with us you had to line up with us on about 150 other points of dogma. Our rule forbade any kind of secular music, and then ended up forbidding most Christian music because it "sounded secular." Females were never allowed to wear pants. Men could not have hair touching their ears or collars. We had sermons against wire rim glasses, bubble gum, roller skating, short hair on women and an endless number of social issues intentionally designed to make us look peculiar. And then the doctrine. Most people listening to my voice will have no idea what a dispensation is. But I've seen heated arguments and vile things said between people who disagreed about dispensationalism, covenant theology, Bible versions, predestination, and maybe 30 or so hair-splitting interpretations of the book of Revelation.
So I'm going to prescribe a response to today's cancel culture and make a bold prediction.
- Response: Stand firm for what is right. Wait it out.
- Prediction: the Cancel Culture will implode. They will eat their own.
There is essentially NO independent Baptist movement in America today. The group that once boasted some of the largest churches across the country has imploded. Many of the churches, colleges and schools are completely gone. They succeeded in splintering into so many factions that splinters were all that were left.
Cancel culture is going to fail. Any movement that makes up its own morals and then condemns those who don't measure up will ultimately fail. Why?
- Moral or doctrinal purity is a constantly moving target. For years we were told that we should allow people to express their own sexual preference. Then suddenly last year that phrase became "old" and "incorrect". Now it's sexual orientation. I could give you a thousand examples of shifts in phraseology or even what is considered correct.
- No one is perfect. Most people realize this.
- No one from history who, completely unaware of today's sensibilities, will ever measure up. Most people realize this.
- Today's woke crowd will not measure up to tomorrow's standards. Jesus himself prophesied this: "the measure you use to judge others will be used against you." The "measure" being used to judge people from the past is something those being judged could not have known. Today's judges will be judged by future standards of which they know nothing. And they will be cancelled.
- The social milieu created by the cancel culture is divisive and will lead not to greater harmony. It leads to fractured or splinter groups and they cannot survive.
Coalitions are built around agreement on core issues and agreement to disagree on other issues. Cancel culture moves peripheral issues to the core and then breaks up the group because of a newly heightened significance attached to an issue about which there can be no consensus.
What do you say about a parent who does nothing to control their toddler's temper tantrums? Weak, uninformed, and ultimately cowardly. What does the child learn? Tantrums get your goals accomplished. Today's business and political leaders remind me of those parents. Weak, Uninformed, and ultimately cowardly.
How about this instead? Win the argument. Study what you believe, prepare your response, and win the argument.
What's a real estate investor supposed to do with all this? I don't know - maybe this show is all about real estate and a little bit more. Let me know what you think. roger@rogerblankenship.com
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